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Gervonta Davis has shared the ring with some massive punchers – but one stood out above the rest.

During an unblemished 30-0 career, ‘Tank’ has won world titles in three separate weight classes, defeating the likes of Ryan Garcia, Leo Santa Cruz and Isaac Cruz along the way.

The aforementioned trio all carry a decent amount of power in their own right, particularly Garcia who has finished 20 of 24 wins inside the distance.

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However, Davis insists Rolly Romero punched him the hardest.

Davis fought Romero back in 2022 in a routine defence of his lesser WBA ‘regular’ lightweight belt.

It marked his final fight under the tutelage of Floyd Mayweather before their acrimonious split.

The Baltimore banger blew Romero away in the sixth round but got caught by a few good shots from his adversary en route to the eventual stoppage.

“I ain’t going to lie, Rolly hit hard,” Davis told assembled media on Thursday.

“People are sleeping on Rolly. He hasn’t got a chin so Rolly gets caught but he can hit.

“He’s the only person I have felt. When he swung it felt like there were bricks in his hands.”

The only other boxer whose power stood out was former two-division world champion Danny Garcia.

Garcia and Davis never fought as professionals, but ‘Tank’ was drafted in as a sparring partner for ‘Swift’s’ fight with Zab Judah in 2013.

“Who else I sparred that was like that was Danny Garcia,” Davis added. “That guy can hit.”

Davis returns to action on Saturday night against Lamont Roach at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Roach, the reigning WBA super featherweight champion, has been granted special permission by the major sanctioning body to challenge for Davis’ WBA lightweight belt while retaining his black and gold strap.

Davis was upgraded from ‘regular’ to full world champion in November 2023 when Devin Haney vacated the title to move up to super lightweight.

Roach (25-1-1) snatched the WBA super featherweight belt away from Hector Luis Garcia on points in November 2023.

He went on to defend his title last June by blowing away Feargal McCrory inside eight rounds.

Gervonta Davis leaned back from the microphone, a slow grin creeping onto his face, brimming with the earned confidence of a man who’s seen this all before.

“You know what I come to do, man,” the World Boxing Association’s lightweight champion said. “You know why I’m here. I don’t want to say too much. [His mother] is over there in the corner. Got to keep it polite, but y’all know: fireworks.”

It was the same styling of laconic menace he’s dispensed at nearly every press conference before his fights, and yet it still sent a quiet ripple through the Barclays Center atrium on Thursday afternoon. Because when Davis says it, history has shown he’s standing on business. Thirty bouts, 30 wins, 28 knockouts. World titles at 130lb, 135lb and 140lb while selling out arenas from coast to coast. There’s a reason why the squat Baltimore southpaw nicknamed Tank has become the face of American boxing and one of its vanishingly few dependable box-office attractions. People don’t just pay to see him win. They tune in to see how he finishes the show.

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And once more Davis has promised them something worth watching. On Saturday night in Brooklyn, he will look to add another victim to the list when he defends his lightweight strap against Lamont Roach Jr, a super featherweight belt-holder moving up a division for a shot at a seismic upset. Granted special permission to retain his 130lb title while taking on Davis at 135, Roach has seized on the opportunity to turn the industry on its ear. “I’m here to boogie,” he said Thursday. “I got a big tool bag and I’m coming with everything in it.”

The 29-year-old challenger from Washington DC is a capable operator with above-average hand speed and technical ability borne from a deep amateur background. He’s won six on the trot since his lone professional defeat to Jamel Herring in 2019, including an upset by split decision over Héctor Luis García to become a first-time world champion in 2023. But the steps up in weight and class he’ll make on Saturday have left most onlookers terribly pessimistic about his chances. Not least the oddsmakers, who have priced Davis as a vertiginous 1-20 favorite.

The reality is that for Davis, this fight is just another showcase. Another sellout crowd, another headline event, another lucrative payday on Amazon Prime’s young pay-per-view platform. The $79.95 price tag won’t keep the fans away. Barclays will be packed, buzzing, waiting for the moment Tank finds his shot and shuts off the lights. That’s the expectation. The real question is what comes next.

Even as the cheerier-than-normal Davis engaged in the typical pre-fight back-and-forth on Thursday with Roach, the conversation among boxing’s chattering class remained fixated on when he will finally take on one of the big names at or around the 135lb division, among them Devin Haney, Vasiliy Lomachenko and Shakur Stevenson. That question, or some version of it, has hung over Davis’ career for years with no resolution in sight. When Stevenson called him out directly over the weekend, urging Davis to make “the biggest fight in boxing” after his clear but underwhelming win over Yorkshire electrician Josh Padley in Riyadh, Davis’ response to the three-weight champion was open ridicule.

Still, even Tank’s most hardcore supporters are getting restless, more so as he’s started dropping increasingly frequent hints at retirement. Davis’s résumé is filled with spectacular knockouts, but has he had the defining fight? The one that silences what doubters remain? The one that etches his name among the all-time greats? A high-profile stoppage of a weight-drained Ryan Garcia two years ago was the closest thing to it. But none of Davis’ other 12 opponents in the eight years since he became a world champion have been considered serious threats by the sportsbooks.

This weekend’s fight against Roach is expected to be another showcase. The chances that we’ll learn something about the Marylander that we didn’t already know are minimal. No one will remember Davis for how he handled Roach. They’ll remember him for the fight he hasn’t taken yet.

And that’s what makes Saturday night feel like a stepping stone. A sold-out arena, a four-fight pay-per-view card stacked with title fights – Jose Valenzuela defending his WBA junior welterweight title against Gary Antuanne Russell, Alberto Puello putting his WBC 140lb belt on the line against Sandor Martín – but the whole night, every result, every highlight will just build toward the question Tank can’t escape.

Davis has been here before. This will be his fourth time fighting at Barclays, but the first in nearly three years. The last time, in 2022, he knocked out Rolly Romero in six rounds, breaking the venue’s live gate record before a celebrity-flecked crowd including Madonna at ringside. The first, back in 2017, he won his first world title, stopping Jose Pedraza in seven. It’s a building that’s been good to him – he described it as a “second home” on Thursday – where so much of his professional story has been written.

Now aged 30 and seemingly at the peak of his powers, Davis insists he’s looking to be more active in 2025. He was limited to one fight last year after a delicious unification bout with Lomachenko failed to materialize, but his plan is to fight three times this year – something he hasn’t done since 2019. That would be a welcome shift, but volume won’t replace legacy. If he wants to be remembered as an all-time great, he’ll have to take a fight that means more than just another knockout on his record.

So far Davis’s shimmering brilliance inside the ropes has been enough to relegate a disturbing pattern of allegations and criminal charges – including accusations of domestic violence, multiple assault arrests, a hit-and-run crash in November 2020 that left four people hospitalized including a pregnant woman, and an arrest just days before a major fight for allegedly striking a woman who was heard in a 911 call pleading for her life – to the margins of his narrative. He remains America’s problematic fave: the conservative back-of-the-napkin math suggests he’s amassed more than $65m in career earnings. Crucially, that financial security has made him one of the only A-list boxers in a position to resist the courtship of Turki al-Sheikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, whose bottomless coffers have turned Riyadh into the sport’s epicenter in two short years.

Someone asked Roach on Thursday if there was a chance his confidence in springing the upset was misplaced. “What am I supposed to say when they ask me questions?” he said, emotions rising. “What am I supposed to say? Oh, he’s going to [knock me out]? I’m going to say what I got to say. I know what I can do.”

Davis just smiled, before interrupting the sound bite to infantilize his opponent. “You bring your mother,” he said, breaking a derisive grin.

Maybe Roach will prove him wrong. Maybe Saturday night will be tougher than anyone expects and Ms Roach will get the last laugh. But the real fight isn’t this weekend. It’s the one waiting in the distance, whenever Davis decides to take it.

Who knew that the chance taken by Floyd Mayweather on one random day in 2015 would change the boxing world forever?

Signing a young, up-and-coming boxer by the name of Gervonta Davis with less than 10 fights under his belt was a risky move for Mayweather. However, it turned out to be one of the best investments that Money ever made.

The rise of the Baltimorean southpaw to the superstardom level is something else, and Floyd Mayweather played a huge role in it. However, in the last few years, things have not been so smooth between the pair ever since the split. The duo has been taking digs at each other on social media and on February 24, 2025, things took another weird turn.

Gervonta Davis Floyd Mayweather

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As Pretty Boy was celebrating his 48th birthday, he received many birthday wishes and tributes. However, the post that stood out was of Gervonta Davis, who might have taken a shot at his former promoter. Tank posted a training video on his social media with the caption that read, “Life is better when you’re gone and I don’t need ya… #TheONE.” While the caption doesn’t explicitly mention Mayweather, the timing of the post has raised many eyebrows. With the speculations of a broken relationship again in circulation, let’s take a look at where it all went wrong.

As mentioned, Davis signed a deal with Mayweather Promotions in 2015 with legendary promoter Al Haymon by his side. It was a fruitful relationship that saw the Baltimore native go from being a rising prospect to a boxer with a 26-0 record. Davis also won three titles in two different weight categories during his time with the 50-0 boxer.

However, cracks started to appear in early 2017 when Gervonta Davis won his first world title. The boxing star accused ‘Money’ of unprofessional behavior and hogging the limelight. While the accusations continued, the pair remained in business together while being cordial.

However, the relationship completely collapsed in 2022, when Tank left ‘Money Team’ ahead of his fight against Rolando RomeroThe WBA lightweight champion made the announcement via the ‘Last Stand’ podcast, citing that he needs to take care of his career by himself. After 26 victories and three world titles, Davis realized that he was ready to move on and manage himself.

Ever since the split, the relationship between Mayweather and Davis has been like a mixed bag. Sometimes the pair take brutal digs at each other while other times it seems like everything is fine.

Tank made it clear that the split did not happen on good terms. He accused his former mentor of banning him from his gym to prepare for Ryan Garcia‘s fight. Given that it was and still is the biggest fight of Davis’s career, the betrayal must have hurt. However, the aftermath of the Garcia fight stated otherwise. After the Baltimorean successfully defeated KingRy via a seventh-round KO, Floyd Mayweather was inside the ring, embracing his former protégé. The incident made it seem like the pair had buried the hatchet.

Furthermore, both Davis and Mayweather made it clear multiple times that, despite the turbulence in their relationship, they both respect each other. Also during a conversation with FightHype, Gervonta Davis claimed that he is still open to working with Floyd Mayweather in the future. All these confessions made fans believe that despite their differences, the pair are still on respectable terms with each other.

However, then things went sour last year in April when Floyd Mayweather allegedly got held up in the UAE. Among those fueling rumors about Mayweather was Tank. He claimed that Mayweather was being held by the government because of a debt/financial crisis. The 30-year-old called his former mentor a “hater” while challenging the latter to go live on Instagram to show his whereabouts. As expected, Mayweather didn’t take it silently and replied with an image of himself in Dubai with the caption, “BREAKING NEWS FLOYD MAYWEATHER STUCK IN DUBAI.” It was indeed a playful jab at Davis.

Even after Davis’ cryptic post on Pretty Boy’s birthday, the latter posted an old sparring video featuring Davis and Devin Haney at his Mayweather gym in Las Vegas. All these back-and-forths have made it clear that the former mentor-protégé pair share a rather complex relationship. However, that should not undermine the role Mayweather has played in Gervonta Davis’ career.

The former five-division champion met Tank for the first time at one of Adrien Broner‘s training camps in 2015. There was an immediate spark, and the Marylander joined Mayweather Promotions later that year. His first major fight after signing with the promotion came in 2017 when he fought against Francisco Fonseca on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor undercard.

Many expected Tank’s career to fly from there. However, surprisingly, he only fought once in 2018, which even frustrated him. The Mayweather Promotions made up for it by giving Davis three fights in 2018 and 2019. Fans can only dream of seeing the WBA lightweight champion three times in a year. While the frequency of his fights decreased after 2019, the quality of the opponents increased significantly. In the next three years, Gervonta Davis fought some of the biggest names in boxing at the time.

The last three years in Mayweather Promotions made Gervonta Davis the star he is today. Furthermore, even though he left the promotion, Mayweather has always wished the best for his protégé. In an interview with Fight Hype after the split, the Pretty Boy declared, “I will always love Tank. I like him. Love him – look at him as a son. He has to do what’s best for him. I feel like I’ve done a great job thus far, building him and putting him in good fights, great fights. He’s steady growing, he’s steady learning. I’m proud of him.”

Even though their relationship is now broken, Mayweather’s role in Tank’s career remains undeniable.

Gervonta Davis’ power is scary.

His fast hands and skill have made him a frightening proposition, with nobody yet to beat him. He has also won 28 of his 30 fights via knockout and once turned one former world champion’s legs to jelly and made him quit in front of the great Floyd Mayweather.

As a teenager, Davis was an unstoppable force as he accumulated stoppage after stoppage.

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The man known as Tank was also incredibly active as he fought six times in 2013, his first year as a professional.

His career then received a tremendous boost just two years later when Mayweather, widely considered to be one of the best in the modern era with a 50-0 record, took him under his wing.

Once he became a member of Mayweather Promotions, the spotlight intensified and the challenges in the ring became increasingly difficult for Davis.

One of those came in the form of former IBF featherweight world champion Cristobal Cruz in 2015.

At 38 years old, Cruz was evidently past his prime.

But it takes serious boxing IQ and nous to become a world champion and the Mexican felt he could call on all of his experience against the fearless Davis.

Unfortunately for Cruz, experience counted for little when Davis came firing with his lethal arsenal of punches.

In fact, the former champion was knocked down by the soon-to-be challenger with 50 seconds remaining in the first round.

Davis fired a powerful straight left that sent Cruz back into the ropes and onto the canvas, though was able to beat the count and continue.

Cruz ate several thudding shots from Davis in the second round, but there was little he could do when ‘Tank’ cranked up the power in the third.

The Mexican over-reached when he threw a jab midway through the third round and Davis’ eyes lit up.

Davis fired off a short left hand that rocked Cruz, so much so that he held his hands up and curled up on the floor.

Remarkably, Cruz beat the count and got to his feet.

However, when asked to walk to his left, the referee deemed he was unable to continue and subsequently waved off the fight.

Cruz was disappointed at the referee’s decision, but given the damage Davis had dished out within three rounds, a stoppage seemed inevitable.

Mayweather sat ringside for Davis’ three-round beatdown and went into the ring to celebrate his then-protege’s victory.

Since then he has become one of the lightweight division’s best fighters, holding on to the WBA belt since winning it in 2023. He is also a two-time super featherweight king, with notable wins over Leo Santa Cruz, Jose Pedraza and Mario Barrios.

Fast forward to today and Davis is preparing to defend his WBA strap against Lamont Roach in New York. However, the relationship between him and Mayweather is non-existent.

The pair amicably split in 2022 when Davis decided to leave Mayweather Promotions, but have engaged in a war of words since.

Their latest verbal spat came when Mayweather suggested fans should watch a UFC event instead of Davis’ fight against Frank Martin.

Davis responded by calling Mayweather a ‘bitter b****’ and mocked the news his right-hand man Leonard Ellerbe had stepped down from his role as CEO of Mayweather Promotions.

In the end, Martin was left sprawled on the canvas to pave the way for the Roach fight.

Many want to see him fight Shakur Stevenson after that in what could be Davis’ biggest fight since destroying Ryan Garcia in 2023.

Gervonta Davis was an established world champion but was still to emerge from Floyd Mayweather’s shadow when he flew to London to defend his IBF super-featherweight title against Liam Walsh in May 2017.

A recent investment in boxing by TNT Sport – then BT Sport – and Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions had contributed to the move to showcase not only one of the world’s most exciting young fighters but, in his mentor Mayweather – then still an active fighter – one of the world’s very biggest names.

Walsh, then 31 and in his prime, had built his reputation when, in not dissimilar circumstances, in 2011 he defeated Paul Appleby in an exciting fight to launch the often-missed BoxNation.

Walsh was badly hurt in round three

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He had since continued to improve into a world-level fighter and, at a time when Davis was yet to truly be tested, was widely considered capable of either dethroning him or, in the event of defeat, proving he was the real thing.

When Davis and Mayweather first flew to London to promote the upcoming fight at the Copper Box Arena, Mayweather, inevitably, had other commitments to fulfil. One involved him charging fans £100 for photos at a speaking engagement having shown up late after prioritising extra sleep. At another date the van his team used was set alight; he was also interviewed by Rio Ferdinand for BT Sport.

Come fight week Davis cut a quiet figure while Mayweather, partly owing to a spat with the composed Walsh, continued to dominate what was unfolding. It was on fight night at the Copper Box that Davis, indifferent to the hostile atmosphere created by the Cromer-based Walsh’s fans, instead finally outshone his attention-seeking promoter by walking to the ring dressed like Michael Jackson to the strains of Beat It, and then by so clinically stopping Walsh in under three rounds.

“I’d rather have got knocked clean out,” Walsh, rescued on his feet by the referee Michael Alexander, told talkSPORT.

“I’d have felt better. [But] in hindsight, looking back, I were never gonna beat him, because my defence weren’t good enough. He hadn’t been down the stretch at that point – he’d knocked [Eusebio] Pedraza out in the seventh [round].

“I was thinking, ‘I can potentially get to him – he’s a young kid – get him frustrated where he’s swinging and getting annoyed’. He was trying to goad me and he was talking to me. He kept going, ‘You’re an amateur; you’re an amateur’.

“He needed more action – he was the star attraction. My mentality was frustrate him, get him swinging – get him a bit wild.

“He might have lost his composure quite easily, and then down the stretch, [I’d] really switch it completely and be really aggressive with him instead – so push him back and bang away at his body. Pull his head down; hit him low; do all the things you need to to try and grind him down.

“But in hindsight, looking back and looking at his career and how he’s gone and seeing his fights, that wouldn’t have happened [even if I’d survived the opening rounds]. What would have happened is I’d have tried switching it, and he’d have punched the fuck out of me. But I’d have rather that. The way it ended didn’t sit right with me for years.

“As a fighter, ‘Just let me get knocked out’. That’s a fighting mentality. At least it’s a full-stop ending. When you’re not completely done, you [still] feel like you’ve got a one per cent chance.”

Mayweather had joined Davis in the ring to give him instructions, pre-fight, even though Davis’ corner was led by his long-term trainer Calvin Ford – a fellow resident of Baltimore and the real-life inspiration for Cutty, the boxing trainer in The Wire. He was also once again the centre of attention at the post-fight press conference, where the likelihood of him fighting Conor McGregor was close to the only topic discussed.

“The first punch buzzed me,” Walsh recalls of the then-22-year-old who so impressively proved his maturity and temperament.

“The next four or five were round the back of the head. He then rushed at me, on the ropes – I’m leaning on the side, my feet are all over the place, my hands are up, punches are scuffing all around me, and Mike Alexander made probably the correct decision. I was probably gonna get absolutely hammered.”

Since that night, and partly because of it, Davis has unquestionably evolved as a fighter. If the mid-fight attempts to unnerve Walsh were something he learned from Mayweather, Davis, who after a gradual deterioration in their relationship split from his then-promoter last year, has become similarly provocative in the build-up to his fights.

“I didn’t get the sense he felt particularly bad about making Ryan [Garcia, whom he beat in 2023] wait,” said Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza of the press conference at which Davis arrived two hours late.

Though Garcia retained a professional exterior, Espinoza witnessed enough to detect that Davis had got under Garcia’s skin. “There was some gamesmanship there – a little bit of mental warfare,” he continued, to talkSPORT.

“This was the first time that these guys had been together in an official setting, so it would not be unusual or unexpected for there to be some psychological warfare, and if making someone wait for an hour was intended to get some sort of reaction…

“This was the first opportunity that either of them had to start positioning, psychologically.

“Ryan was definitely frustrated, as was his team – and rightly so. There was more frustration expressed behind the scenes than was maybe evident to the public – at the amount of time that had passed before he showed up.”

In the end Davis again showed why he is arguably boxing’s draw by dropping his opponent in the seventh round for an impressive win.

Since then he has beaten Frank Martin and will defend his WBA lightweight title against Lamont Roach in New York City on 1 March.

However, there might not be many more knockouts to look forward to given his retirement plan, with fans having hopes of seeing him share the ring with one of  Vasyl Lomachenko and Shakur Stevenson.

Davis had shocked boxing by announcing his intention to walk away from the sport in 2025. Recently, though, he has admitted to re-thinking that decision, admitting it could be more of a break than walking away for good.

Gervonta Davis is now willing to face YouTube sensation Jake Paul under one simple condition.

The 30-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland has enjoyed an accomplished professional career to date, capturing world titles across three weight classes. ‘Tank’ currently holds the WBA lightweight title which he is set to defend against Lamont Roach Jr on March 1 in New York.

As he enters arguably the most important years of his tenure, Davis is reportedly interested in only the biggest fights available to him. Although one bout that looks to be of interest to him is against ‘The Problem Child’ Paul, who ditched his YouTube career to enter professional boxing back in 2020.

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Speaking on The Mr Jay Hill Network, ‘Tank’ admitted he would fight Paul if the opportunity arose, but stated he would only do it if the 27-year-old agreed to drop his weight down to 190-195lbs.

“Yeah I’d fight him for that money. He can’t come in at 220lbs [what he weighed last fight]. Give him 190 or 195.

I would consider him a boxer now because he’s definitely in the gym so I will consider him a boxer. He just got to fight an actual fighter now, like a fighter. [I can see him] fighting me.”

The weight would require Paul to come in 30lbs lighter than his last contest against heavyweight legend ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson last November. Their controversial heavyweight clash took place at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas on the first ever boxing show to be broadcasted on Netflix, with Paul winning by a wide unanimous decision.

Many prominent figures in the sport have urged ‘The Problem Child’ to make a serious step-up in opposition in his next fight. He looked all set to face current super-middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez before the Mexican pulled out of negotiations at the last moment.

Gervonta Davis has identified the one opponent he would like to face the most.

The 30-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland ranks as one of the best current fighters on the planet, where he reigns as the WBA lightweight champion. ‘Tank’ remains unbeaten through 30 professional outings, knocking out 28 of the opponents he has fought during his career.

In a shock admission made by Davis recently, the 30-year-old was asked on a podcast to name his ‘dream fight’, revealing Floyd Mayweather Jr as the one man he would want to face most.

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“Me vs. Floyd [Mayweather].”

Mayweather has not fought since making his retirement from professional boxing shortly after defeating MMA legend Conor McGregor in August 2017. The 47-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan has a history of working with ‘Tank’ during the early stages of the lightweight star’s career, before the pair went their separate ways in 2022.

Despite making the shock call-out to ‘Money’, Davis has also admitted in an interview with Boxing News that a showdown against his former promoter would still be the toughest test of anyone he could potentially fight.

“Probably Mayweather [would be the toughest]”.

Although he has not appeared in a professional capacity in just under 9-years, Mayweather has had a number of exhibition contests where he has come up against the likes of Tenshin Nasukawa, Logan Paul and Aaron Chalmers.

The 47-year-old has left the door open for a return to the sport over the last few years, although any concrete news of this has never come to fruition. ‘Tank’ Davis returns to the ring on March 1 when he faces Lamont Roach Jr in a defence of his WBA crown in New York City.

The 30-year-old revealed at the end of last year that he could make a shock exit from the sport within the next 12-months, claiming he has ‘grown tired’ of boxing.

Gervonta Davis and Floyd Mayweather have had a turbulent relationship.

Boxing legend Mayweather guided ‘Tank’ during the majority of his career, as Davis won world titles in multiple weight divisions and became widely regarded as one of the most exciting fighters in the sport.

The two then parted ways in 2022, and things have seemingly turned hostile since then, with both men having fired insults in the opposite direction in the years that have followed.

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Davis has now revealed that his former mentor Mayweather once put him in a fight where he wanted ‘Tank’ to lose, explaining to The Jay Hill Podcast how things transpired.

“I’ve been in situations where I was in a lose-lose situation and came out still on top. He [Mayweather] put me in to make me lose and thought I would lose. A boxing match. Jose Pedraza. My first world title. I was 16-0 and I was 21 at the time and I hadn’t fought in seven, eight months.

Around that time I wasn’t making that much. Maybe around 10,000 a fight. Six months is crazy to not fight. When they came back and said you’ve got to fight this fighter Pedraza, If you don’t fight him you’re not fighting and sitting on the shelf.

I had to fight him, in the midst of all that happening, I got evicted, I had to sell my jewellery.

For sure [Floyd did that intentionally].”

Davis fought Pedraza back in January 2017, winning the fight by seventh round stoppage to capture the IBF super-featherweight title and become world champion for the first time.

‘Tank’ returns to action in March when he defends his WBA lightweight crown against Lamont Roach, but another recently crowned world champion is already calling to face Davis next.

Gervonta Davis and Floyd Mayweather have had a turbulent relationship.

Boxing legend Mayweather guided ‘Tank’ during the majority of his career, as Davis won world titles in multiple weight divisions and became widely regarded as one of the most exciting fighters in the sport.

The two then parted ways in 2022, and things have seemingly turned hostile since then, with both men having fired insults in the opposite direction in the years that have followed.

Davis has now revealed that his former mentor Mayweather once put him in a fight where he wanted ‘Tank’ to lose, explaining to The Jay Hill Podcast how things transpired.

“I’ve been in situations where I was in a lose-lose situation and came out still on top. He [Mayweather] put me in to make me lose and thought I would lose. A boxing match. Jose Pedraza. My first world title. I was 16-0 and I was 21 at the time and I hadn’t fought in seven, eight monthsGervonta Davis

Around that time I wasn’t making that much. Maybe around 10,000 a fight. Six months is crazy to not fight. When they came back and said you’ve got to fight this fighter Pedraza, If you don’t fight him you’re not fighting and sitting on the shelf.

I had to fight him, in the midst of all that happening, I got evicted, I had to sell my jewellery.

For sure [Floyd did that intentionally].”

Davis fought Pedraza back in January 2017, winning the fight by seventh round stoppage to capture the IBF super-featherweight title and become world champion for the first time.

‘Tank’ returns to action in March when he defends his WBA lightweight crown against Lamont Roach, but another recently crowned world champion is already calling to face Davis next.

Terence Crawford believes Gervonta Davis is beatable.

‘Tank’ has been an impossible puzzle for his opponents to crack so far and boasts an unblemished 30-0 record.

Davis holds the WBA belt in a stacked lightweight division that is crying out for unification bouts.

Vasyl Lomachenko owns the IBF title, Shakur Stevenson is in possession of the WBC belt while Keyshawn Davis recently snatched the WBO strap away from Denys Berinchyk on Valentine’s Day with a sickening body shot KO.

Crawford was in attendance to watch his training partner dispatch Berinchyk and told FightHype in the immediate aftermath that Gervonta wouldn’t fare well against Keyshawn or Shakur.

“Tank knows what it is up,” he said. “He knows what he is up against if he is going to fight Shakur or Keyshawn.

“He wants to fight these guys that everybody in the world know aren’t going to give him a fight.Gervonta Davis' Power Compared To Terence Crawford's By Sparring Partner:  "He Kills You"

“They aren’t mentally there, they might have a little skill here and there but mentality-wise they are not going to be able to keep it up the whole fight.

“And those two guys [Shakur and Keyshawn] are going to be the ones to give him his first Ls.”

Both Shakur and Keyshawn are of the same thinking and expressed their opinions on a possible showdown with Gervonta during exclusive interviews with over the last few weeks.

Keyshawn beamed with confidence as he compared a match-up with Gervonta to the beating Crawford dished out on Errol Spence Jr in July 2023 for the undisputed welterweight crown.

“I see myself putting the same beating on Gervonta as Terence did [on Spence],”

I feel like his style is perfect for my style. I’m young, I don’t think it will go the full 12 but I can fight 12 rounds if it comes down to it.

“The only thing we are always going to mention is that one punch.Terence Crawford Vs. Gervonta Davis: Who's Made More Money In Boxing?

“I have power and I’ve knocked fighters out with one punch but he has done it consecutive times.

“We know he has got that one punch but we don’t know yet what I truly have because I only have 12 fights and I’ve only been fighting on a truly elite level for three fights, this fight will be my fourth [against Berinchyk].

“So there is a lot of factors that you don’t know yet. I am better than I am showing you guys already.”

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